Deaf signers who know Japanese remember words and numbers more effectively than deaf signers who know English.
Deaf people have difficulty reading and remembering English script because of its sound-based orthography. Logographs (e.g., kanji, Arabic numerals) should not pose the same challenge because they are based on meaning, not sound. Little research has been conducted to test this theory's validity cros...
| Published in: | American Annals of the Deaf Vol. 149; no. 1; pp. 39 - 46 |
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| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Annals of the Deaf
Spring2004
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